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by Chris Harper
RAPID CITY, S.D.-Tension gripped this Black
Hills community Sunday as negotiations between city
and county officials and the American Indian
Movement (AIM) about the release of 42 Indian
prisoners appeared to be failing.
Banks also refused a request by city officials to
discontinue inviting the support of other AIM
chapters for the Indians in Rapid City.
AIM members from Minneapolis, Minn., arrived
Sunday morning to add to the nearly 450 Indians
who have gathered in the city since Tuesday to
protest racial discrimination against Indians, Banks
said.
After Banks announced a self-imposed curfew
from 9:30 p.m. to 6 a.m. for Indians, AIM members
organized protection squadrons, according to Russel
Means, former AIM national coordinator.
'This is a war in Rapid City and if we are going to
win the battle we have to be militarily organized,"
Means said. "The National Guard have had riot
training. The police know their battle plan so we have
to know our battle plan."
Two battles already ,iuvi been fought. Indian
protests began Tuesday night in Custer, S.D., 30 miles
southeast of Rapid City, concerning the alleged fatal
stabbing of an Indian by 1 white man. Darld Schmitz,
30, has been charged with manslaughter in
connection with the death of Wesley Bad Heart Bull,
20, at Buffalo Gap, S.D. AIM leaders said they believe
that Schmitz should be charged with murder.
Another 42 Indians were arrested early Saturday"
morning after disturbances at four Rapid City bars.
Banks said that the spontaneous incidents at the bars
were not sanctioned by AIM.
"There can be no excuse for this form of
lawlessness," Rapid City Mayor Dan Barnett said.
"Public order will be maintained in Rapid City."
Barnett added that the law is being strictly
enforced but police "are certainly not busting any
heads."
Signs of past and possible future confrontations
remain in Rapid City.
Means cradled a seriously injured left arm after
Tuesday's disturbance. Most Indians carried lead
pipes, baseball bats and other make-shift weapons at
the Mother Butler Center, AIM headquarters in Rapid
City. One 16-year-old Indian displayed his World War
11 PolSf wutiously patrolled the city while National
Guard units were stationed near Custer, Sturgis and
Aough initial disturbances centered on Schmitz'
manslaughter charge, racial discrimination against
Inidans in South Dakota has become the major thrust
of AIM protests, Banks said. . ..
"I have seen racial discrimination other places but
none like that here in Rapid City." Banks said.
"Rapid City parallels Custer in its goals and objectives
to keep Indian people down.
"We have tried to carry signs to bring attention to
the injustice," he said. "We have carried signs from
Minneapolis to Washington and they still hurt us
they never listened to us. But they did listen to us
Feb. 6 in Custer. They're going to continue to listen
to us from this day forward. We're going to burn
down those racist towns."
Rev. William O'Connell, chairman of the Rapid
City Racial Concilliation Commission, said: "The
board quickly realized that the ordinances which
created it are totally ineffective to meet and answer
the problems."
O'Connell suggested organization of a new
commission to deal with discrimination problems and
a general community education program conceerning
the problems of American Indians.
'The officials asked us when our convention was
going to end," Banks said. "We've been waiting for
their convention to end so they can get back on the
Mayflower and go home."
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